Birth Quote by Thomas Gray

“He hoped wherever he was going that there'd still be the sun and the moon and the stars. He'd spent a majority of his…

— T.J. Klune

“An abyss of fortune or of temperament sundered him from them. His mind seemed older than theirs: it shone coldly on their strifes and…

— James Joyce

“He lay on his back, watching the great river of stars wash across the sky. Worlds above, worlds below. It made him feel very…

— James R. Sanford

“He shook his head at the bright world in the sky. He would have to get over the habit of regarding the heavens as…

— C.L. Moore

“He felt like a young student again, confronted with all the art and knowledge of mankind. The experience was both exhilarating and depressing; a…

— Arthur C. Clarke

He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions…

— Oscar Wilde

“It is a great and beautiful spectacle to see a man somehow emerging from oblivion by his own efforts, dispelling with the light of…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels.…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad. A gentle melancholy took…

— James Joyce

“His life had been spent pursuing excellence and amassing a great fortune, but now that it was ending, there was no one he was…

— Steven Decker

“Diligence and attention soon gave him the knack of it, and he strode down the street with his mouth full of harmony and his…

— Mark Twain

“An intolerable pain pierced him. He was totally lost without her...estranged from his life utterly, and from the world. This was the world into…

— Anna Kavan